Caribou Air Force Station

Caribou Air Force Station
Part of Air Force Logistics Command Strategic Air Command
Limestone, Maine
The station in 1967
Coordinates	.
Built	1951
Built by	U.S. Air Force
In use	1951-1962
Garrison	Limestone, Maine

Caribou Air Force Station, also known as North River Depot and East Loring, is a defunct Air Force Station that operated from 1951 until some time when it was absorbed into Loring Air Force Base in 1962. It was located in Limestone, Maine, adjacent to Loring. Between 1951 and 1962 Stony Brook AFS was an Operational Storage Site for Air Materiel Command (AMC-OSS), one of five in the United States, and the nuclear weapons storage and maintenance facility for Loring alert aircraft.

Units Based There

3080th Aviation Depot Group

References

External links

Strategic Air Command (SAC)

Bases

Active
(MAJCOM)

CONUS	Altus (AETC) • Andersen (PACAF) • Andrews (AMC) • Barksdale (ACC) • Beale (ACC) • Bolling (AFDW) • Cannon (AFSOC) • Columbus (AETC) • Davis-Monthan (ACC) • Dyess (ACC) • Eielson (PACAF) • Ellsworth (ACC) • Eglin (AFMC) • F. E. Warren (AFSPC) • Fairchild (AMC) • Forbes (ANG) • Grand Forks (AMC) • Grissom (AFRC) • Homestead (AFRC) • Lincoln (ANG) • Little Rock (AETC) • MacDill (AMC) • Malmstrom (AFSPC) • March (AFRC) • McChord (AMC) • McConnell (AMC) • McGuire (AMC) • Minot (ACC) • Mountain Home (ACC) • Nellis (ACC) • Offutt (ACC) • Patrick (AFSPC) • Pease (ANG) • Rickenbacker (ANG) • Robins (AFMC) • Seymour Johnson (ACC) • Sheppard (AETC) • Selfridge (ANG) • Travis (AMC) • Vandenburg (AFSPC) • Westover (AFRC) • Whiteman (ACC) • Wright-Patterson (AFMC)

Overseas	RAF Alconbury (USAFE) • Diego Garcia (RAF) • Kadena (PACAF) • RAF Fairford (USAFE) • RAF Lakenheath (USAFE) • RAF Mildenhall (USAFE) • Thule (AFSPC)

Inactive

CONUS	Amarillo • Bergstrom • Biggs • Bong (unbuilt) • Calumet Air Force Base • Carswell • Castle • Chennault • Clinton-Sherman • Dow • Eaker • Glasgow • Grand Island (AAF) • Griffiss • Hunter • K. I. Sawyer • Kearney • Kincheloe • Larson • Loring • Lowry • Mather • McCoy • Plattsburgh • Presque Isle • Ramey • Shilling • Stead • Turner • Walker • Wurtsmith

Overseas	RAF Bassingbourn • Ben Guerir • Boulhaut • RAF Brize Norton • RAF Bruntingthorpe • RAF Burtonwood • RAF Chelveston • RAF Greenham Common • Goose Bay • Ernest Harmon • RAF High Wycombe • RAF Upper Heyford • Torrejón • RAF Manston • Morón • Nouasseur • RAF Scampton • RAF Sculthorpe • Sidi Slimane • RAF South Ruislip • U-Tapao • RAF Waddington • RAF Woodbridge • RAF Wyton • Zaragoza

Units

Air Forces

Second Air Force • Eighth Air Force • Fifteenth Air Force • Sixteenth Air Force • Twentieth Air Force

Divisions

Air	3rd • 4th • 5th • 6th • 7th • 12th • 14th • 17th • 19th • 21st • 36th • 40th • 42d • 45th • 47th • 57th • 100th • 311th • 801st • 802d • 806th • 817th • 822d • 823d • 4310th

Strategic Aerospace	1st • 18th • 22d • 810th • 813th • 816th • 818th • 819th • 820th • 821st • 825th

Strategic Missile	13th

Wings

Bombardment

2d • 5th • 7th • 9th • 17th • 19th • 22nd • 28th • 39th • 42d • 43rd • 68th • 70th • 72d • 92nd • 93d • 96th • 97th • 99th • 303d • 319th • 320th • 340th • 379th • 380th • 397th • 410th • 416th • 449th • 450th • 454th • 456th • 461st • 465th • 484th • 494th • 509th

Fighter

1st • 4th • 12th • 27th • 31st • 33d • 56th • 71st Strategic Reconnaissance (Fighter) • 82d • 407th • 506th • 508th

Missile

44th • 90th • 91st • 308th • 321st • 341st • 351st • 381st • 389th • 390th • 392d • 451st • 455th • 526th • 702d • 703d • 704th • 705th

Reconnaissance

6th Strategic Reconnaissance • 26th Strategic Reconnaissance • 55th Strategic Reconnaissance • 544th Aerospace Reconnaissance Technical

Refueling

11th • 100th • 301st • 305th • 384th • 452d • 497th • 499th • 500th

Strategic

Aerospace	310th • 385th • 462d

AFCON	95th • 98th • 306th • 307th • 376th

MAJCOM	3918th • 3920th • 3960th • 3970th • 3973d • 4026th • 4038th • 4039th • 4042d • 4043d • 4047th • 4080th • 4081st • 4082d • 4083d • 4123d • 4126th • 4128th • 4130th • 4133d • 4134th • 4135th • 4136th • 4137th • 4138th • 4141st • 4157th • 4158th • 4170th • 4228th • 4238th • 4239th • 4241st • 4245th • 4252nd • 4258th • 4321st

Support

40th

USAAF
Groups
*=Initial Assigned
Unit Upon SAC's
Activation

Bombardment	2d (7/47) • 7th (10/46) • 28th (8/46) • 40th (3/46) • 43rd (10/46) • 44th (3/46) • 92nd (10/46) • 93d (3/46) • 97th (8/46) • 98th (7/47) • 301st (8/46) • 307th (8/46) • 444th (3/46) • 448th (3/46) • 449th (3/46) • 467th (3/46) • 485th (3/46) • 498th (3/46) • 509th Composite (3/46)

Fighter	27th (6/47) • 55th (2/47)

Reconnaissance	91st Strategic Reconnaissance (1/47)

Major
weapon
systems

Bombers	B-1B • B-2 • B-17 • B-26 • B-29 • B-36 • B-45 • B-47 • B-50 • B-52 • B-57 • B-58 • FB-111

Command & Control	DC-130 • E-4 • EC-135 • RC-135

Fighters	F-51 • F-82 • F-84 • F-86 • F-102 • F-111

Missiles	ADM-20 • AGM-28 • AGM-69 • AGM-84 • AGM-86 • AGM-129 • HGM-16 • LGM-30A/B • LGM-30F • LGM-30G • LGM-118A • SM-62 • PGM-17A • PGM-19A

Reconnaissance	SR-71 • TR-1 • U-2

Tankers	KB-29 • KB-50 • KC-10 • KC-97 • HC-130 • KC-130 • KC-135

Transport	C-45 • C-47 • C-54 • C-82 • C-97 • C-118 • C-119 • C-124 • C-131 • C-135

Commanders

Kenney • Lemay • Power • Ryan • Nazzaro • Holloway • Meyer • Dougherty • Ellis • Davis • Welch • Chain • Butler

Emblems

Strategic Air Command Emblem Gallery (On Wikimedia Commons)